On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> <p> > >> The <prgn>DEBIAN</prgn> directory will not appear in the > >> file system archive of the package, and so won't be installed > >> - by <prgn>dpkg</prgn> when the package is installed. > >> + by <prgn>dpkg</prgn> when the package is unpacked. > >> </p> > > > Technically, it's unpacked: not in /DEBIAN but in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/ > > and then moved to /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.* at the end of the unpack > > phase but it's probably not worth pointing out in policy (or only as a > > footnote). > > Is this true of all files in the control.tar.gz other than DEBIAN/control, > even ones unknown to dpkg?
Yes, it only has a blacklist of files that it won't install (like "list" since it's for internal use). The directory might be /var/lib/dpkg/info/tmp.ci/ in fact to ensure that it's on the same filesystem and can be moved around with rename. > It does seem like it would be worth documenting /var/lib/dpkg/info > somewhere non-normative. No opinion. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100815194259.gd23...@rivendell
